Risk: Factions
Wage war with five factions, each with unique abilities, in the original game of strategy and world domination! Play with the classic rules or reign supreme with objective-based and world conquest scenarios as…
Risk: Factions is a strategy developed by Powerhouse Animation Studios, released 23 June 2010 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Risk: Factions is
Risk: Factions is a strategy game developed by Powerhouse Animation Studios and released in 2010. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Wage war with five factions, each with unique abilities, in the original game of strategy and world domination! Play with the classic rules or reign supreme with objective-based and world conquest scenarios as you command your army and take tactical gambles to win the day. Then challenge your friends in local or online multiplayer and see how you stack up on the leaderboards.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Risk series
Risk: Factions is the third of 7 entries we hold in the Risk series. It arrived 2 years after Hasbro Classic Game Collection. The next entry was Risk: The Official Game in 2010.
How it was received
Risk: Factions holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2GHz CPU (Pentium 4 or equivalent), 1GB RAM (2GB for Vista) and GPU capable of Pixel Shader 3.0 or better. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Risk: Factions launched on 23 June 2010, within three weeks of Xenoblade Chronicles, Singularity, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Xenoblade Chronicles, Singularity, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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